“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

also dissatisfied with your existence,

 

The mood was strange.

 

but they couldn’t take their eyes

 

if one of them would turn around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on warming up the desolate

 

were almost chest

 

my appearance you’re

 

There are a

 

doing here, then? Hurry up and go

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

man came closer, as if there was still space left

 

don’t participate

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

man’s hair and dug her nails into the back of his neck, pulling him close to her.

 

twice her size, but

 

was, who these people were, and why I was here, as I took in the scene of the

 

and the sounds of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source

 

was romantic, yet macabre. Sad and hopeless and wretched

 

eyes turned to

 

only a ghost in this dream, after all. Someone from the outside

 

smiled at me—a

 

The face I

 

The woman was me.

 

that’s

 

Then, that man is…

 

as if someone had turned me to stone. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t talk. I couldn’t

 

and the woman vanished and

 

***

 

right into my eyes had me twitching, trying to blink it

 

that came to me was the heavy feeling in my head. I tried to lift my hand, but it dropped down to the bed I was lying on like a ton of

 

am I? Who got me

 

fragments of my memories as I slowly woke up, I turned my eyes to my

 

I wanted to cry.

 

to me, looking like he hadn’t just gone through hell and back, but

 

leaving no part

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

his bangs, the movement taking everything

 

a whisper in the soft

 

of anything. It felt like it didn’t

 

and everything I had done in this life, all of it flashed before my eyes, like

 

in my own

 

just like him, the voice I answered him with was low and

 

“What…?”

 

for a long time. I’ve never really been me. All I was, was an illusion. Once it broke, everyone changed. It’s always been

 

knew very well, something that had

 

When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I wasn’t the perfect sister, always composed and worthy of the family name like he

 

always been like

 

“Always.”

 

twitched in his jaw and his lips curled into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were all the

 

in a situation where I’m hated without doing anything.

 

his eye with my numb finger, gently at first until I pressed hard on the bone of his cheek, wondering

 

gazing at me

 

arm was free, he could embrace me fully, enveloping

 

arm around his wide torso and burying my head in the

 

didn’t understand why my head felt

 

dream, but I didn’t remember it

 

it’s not your

 

suffering-from-main-character-disease arrogant man,

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